Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-19
THAT BOMB.
HOW THE CITY OFFICIALS EXPLODED IT
YESTERDAY.
They Take II 10 the Top Of a High Hill and Spend
Several Hours in Trying to Make II Go
0f-The Remains Brought Back.

Yesterday afternoon Capt. Smith, CLERK
Thompson and Officers Wilkie and Deku
became possessed of a bold determination
to see about how much of the top of Rey-
mann's hill they could blow off with the
mysterious 'bomb" which was presented
to the Police department by the REGISTER.
1t is said they had it wrapped up carefully
in cotton and carried it in a shawl strap,
but this is denied. However, the man
who carried it climbed the hill very care
fully, and studiously avoided Earring him
self or the mysterious bundle he carried.
Officer Deku consoled himself with the
thought that if the thing did 60 of and
kill him there would be only one less Ger
man in the country. Capt. Smiths anxi-
ETY. was that if he were to depart by the
bomb" route a Republican would succeed
him in Office, and ne didn't exactly care
about dying Just then. Clerk Thompson
didn't care about being thrown out OF Of
flee so soon, but wanted to know what was
in the blamed thing anyway, while Officer
Wilke Just wanted to see the burned thing
60 off, and wasn't thinking about the con-
sequences.
So the party, with these mingled feel
ings of anxiety and curiosity, marched
boldly up the hill, my boys, and then
marched down again. But first they at
tached several yards of fuse to the deadly
missile and placed a little pile Of powder
right at the end of the fuse which came
along with the bomb" Then they lit
the far end, and separated. Capt. Smith
went over to the crematOry, ard Clerk
Thompson and Officer Wilkie went down
over the brow of the hill several hundred
feet away being careful to keep from
under any rocks that might be loOsened
by the conclusion and roll down. Officer
Deku hesitated a minute; then a bright
idea struck him, and he MADE for Rey-
mann's brewery as fast as his legs could
carry him. Jacob knew what he was
about.
Then a long wait ensued. Jacob tested
a newly tapped key, Capt. Smith held his
nose and Thompson and Wilkie sat down
and trembled with suppressed excitement.
That is all they did, except to continually
look up into the air expecting to see the
top of the hill sailing Skyward. But she
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sou and WIlkie ventured up n carefully
accommodated the situation. They saw a
little puff OF smoke and Immediately fell
on the ground waiting to make a balloon
ascension without the aid of a balloon.
But again they were disappointed. Then
after making another investigation they
found that the fuse had failed TO burn up
to the brass rod from which it prOtruded.
They then called in the other ''dynami-
ters' and proceeded to pile up a little heap
of brush on which they laid the 'internal
machine" and again sought their former
position.
Another long wait, then they went back
and saw that the iron was red hot and no
sign of an explosion. That disguised them
with the ''bomb" and the man who MAIDS
it, and they lost all confidence in its explo-
siye powers. So after it had cooled of
they all got close together, so that if one
died all would die, and Captain Smith
began to investigate the inside with his
penknile, and 4 stick. The explosive
material WA knocked out onto the
ground. 1t was common soap and a lot OF
fire CLAY.
This is when they marched down the
hill again, my boys.
The remains OF that deadly affair are
lying on the Captains table at the City
Building. They are a piece Of gas pipe
about seven and a half inches long, a piece OF
brass rod about the anne length with a
hole in one end, and a piece Of steel wire
about four inches long.
And this is the internal machine that
| Lieutenant Junkins clrefuliy wrapped in
paper and laid out in the yard the other
night, aud everybody now suspects Branch
O'Brien thl. theatrical agent, OF putting mp
a Job for the purpose of advertising.